Football in Shizuoka Prefecture has deep roots — the earliest documented player in this dataset was born in 1894. In total, 212 players from Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, appear on Wikidata. The most notable include Tadao Horie, Naoto Otake and Yoshinori Ishigami. Among them are 198 male and 14 female players. Documented players span more than 110 years, from 1894 to 2004.